Adolphe Valette Painter was a French impressionist painter who has an early signficant ‘career defining’ influence on L.S. Lowry, when a pupil of Adolphe Valette at the Municipal School of Art in Manchester. Lowry described Vallete’s work as having a “freshness… not seeing drawings like this before”, while going on to call him a ‘real teacher’; ‘a dedicated teacher’ who ultimately taught him new techniques and how to use the urban landscape as his subject matter. Continue reading “Adolphe Valette Painter” »